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Also, gros your hair to a length where you can stick it in a bun or a ponytail.

That is because they were created during the time of the Gros Michel, the old type of banana.

So identify that gene complex, pop it into the infertile triploid Gros Michel, and let the cloning commence.

This was in some ways more drastic of a change than the switch from Gros Michel bananas to Cavendish bananas.

Like Panama disease wiped out Gros Michel banana and is now also threatening Cavendish banana.

Someone should write myth busters, maybe they could import a gros michel to test it.

A different cultivar, the 'Cavendish' was found to be resistant to the strain of Panama disease that afflicted the Gros Michel.

I'm not old enough to have had a Gros Michel, though, so I can't confirm that from personal experience.

I think part of why that happens is because we get to vote 'en gros', instead of 'en detail'.

The same thing happened to the Gros Michel cultivar in the 1950s.

You can still find Gros Michels in Thailand today.

People also tend to mix net and gross amounts (everything salary-related in Croatia is usually presented as a gros amount - while in the US/EU its usually net).

"For his part, Dale is trying to engineer Gros Michel bananas for resistance to the original Foc strain."

The variety of banana (Gros Michel) that was commonplace when the "slip on a banana peel" comedic device was invented was a different breed than the one that is commonplace today (Cavendish.) The Gros Michel peel was reportedly very slippery.

The problem here being that "normal" bananas have seeds in them, and the Cavendish and Gros Michel are specific hybrids that don't - so the only way to propagate is essentially cloning them (take a cutting and grow it) - lots and lots of identical plants.

For example, the 'Gros Michele' cultivar of banana has now been almost entirely superseded by the 'Cavendish' cultivar.

Up until the 1950s the most common variety of banana grown commercially was the 'Gros Michel'.

Expect a lot more: the banana for example that had it's reportedly most tasty variant (Gros Michel) gone extinct in the last century.